Beas River
The Beas River is a river in northwestern India, flowing through the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, and is the smallest of the five major rivers of the Punjab region. Rising in the Himalayas in central Himachal Pradesh, the river flows for approximately 470 kilometres (290 mi) into the Sutlej River in Punjab.
Quotes
- I have driven to the best motherly river (Śutudrī). We have come to the well-formed Vipāś. Like a cow licking a calf both proceeding together along the same river bed (yoni).
- Rigveda 3.33.3:- Quoted in Rivers of Rig-Veda by Jijith Nadumuri Ravi.
- “Forth from the bosom of the mountains, eager as two swift mares with loosened rein contending, Like two bright mother cows who lick their youngling, Vipāś and Śutudrī speed down their waters.”
- Rigveda III.33.1, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1889)
- “So there this car of Uṣas lay, broken to pieces, in Vipāś, And she herself fled far away.”
- Rigveda IV.30.11, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith**